Have a Heart Cupcakes Recipe

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Every now and then we all need a little love! Bake up a dozen of these little cakes as a thank-you gift or for Valentine's Day. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen

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Have a Heart Cupcakes Recipe

Prep: 20 min.

Yield: 1 Servings

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Ingredients

1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Aqua blue food coloring or coloring of your choice
Cupcakes of your choice
Red shoestring licorice, cut into 3-inch pieces
Aqua blue colored sugar or color of your choice

Directions

Tint 3 tablespoons icing with food coloring; set aside. Frost cupcakes.
Using a toothpick, draw a heart into the icing. Following the pattern, gently press licorice into frosting to form heart.
Fill heart with colored sugar. Pipe colored icing onto curved ends of licorice to hold in place.

Originally published as Have a Heart Cupcakes in Fun Food 2011 , p17